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Truncating logs #1056

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petard opened this Issue Sep 7, 2015 · 2 comments

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petard commented Sep 7, 2015

Is there a way to truncate logs opposed to purging all data?

Haven't found a way for truncting data when running out of disk space on our prometheus machine.
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fabxc commented Sep 7, 2015

The flag -storage.local.retention allows you to configure how much history is kept. Data older than that will constantly be truncated.

You can read more here: http://prometheus.io/docs/operating/storage/#disk-usage

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